About Em

Emily has appeared on NBC’s The Blacklist and CBS’s Blue Bloods, has a scene with Winona Ryder and Peter Sarsgaard in the feature film Experimenter, and played the lead role in the short comedy film White Lies with Brian O’Carroll, three-time winner of the Emerging Cinematographer Award. Check out her comedy web series Literally Saying, and other self-produced comedy shorts on her YouTube Channel.

Emily’s short film Broad Daylight, is available to view on Amazon Prime and was a selection of the 2018 Studio City International Film Festival. Cartel sicarios force a journalist to bargain for her life during a turbulent ride-along with a border agent. 

Emily is a Founder and Executive Producer of the The Cut Off Short Collective, short film production group. They have two short films completed and the next film, to be directed by Emily, will be shot in fall 2024. 

Emily is currently building her clown solo show, Grin and Bear It, that will have a run at Hollywood Fringe 2025! Catch her performing parts of the show at Public Displays of Altadena, The Clubhouse, Lyric Hyperion and more!

Emily has trained with Risa Bramon Garcia in her Ongoing Master Class at The BGB Studio for the last six years and teaches the Teen Acting class there. She trained in New York City with Kelly Kimball and Janine Ditullio of Kimball Studio, where she took On Camera Technique and Ballistics (Improv). She has improv training from The Upright Citizens Brigade NY with Ryan Karels, Ben Rogers, Gavin Speiller, Kevin Hines and Kate Riley; and sketch writing with Melinda Taub. Emily has also trained with Seth Barrish, Lee Brock and Jean Taylor at The Barrow Group and is a graduate of The New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. 

Emily is native to Tucson, Arizona. 🌵